Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:09:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Dennis Reiter <mcneills@inw.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX 96 (was: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows?) Message-ID: <19980514190925.U320@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzplns5dwoj=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Thu=2C_May_14=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_11:33:00AM_%2B0200?= References: <000c01bd7e99$05a4bba0$0200a8c0@Dell> <355A0F1A.30F33317@dal.net> <19980514083724.E3535@freebie.lemis.com> <xzplns5dwoj.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On Thu, 14 May 1998 at 11:33:00 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: >> It's been that way for a long time. UNIX 95%. Trick question: which >> of these operating systems may *not* be called UNIX 95%? >> >> FreeBSD >> IBM OS/390 (formerly MVS) >> Microsoft Windows NT >> System V >> >> Hint: only one of them may not. > > What's to stop us from making FreeBSD conform to the standard and gain > the right to use the UNIX name? Money. And maybe a feeling that it would lower the quality of FreeBSD. A lot of these "standards" are a bit silly. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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